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Title: Design for parallel skill based service systems.
Abstract:
Service systems with several types of customers and servers subject to a bipartite compatibility graph are in general quite intractable. I will discuss tractable examples of such systems, and their relation to the simpler tractable model of FCFS bipartite matching, and present a conjecture, and a heuristic based on it, to answer problems of design for large scale general systems
Bio-sketch:
Gideon Weiss is professor emeritus at the Department of Statistics in the University of Haifa, Israel. He has previously been on the faculty of ISYE GA Tech 1983--1994. His research interests are scheduling and control of queueing networks (recent book, Cambridge University Press), and simplex methods for continuous linear programming.
